Nonstop flight route between Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom and Tangier, Morocco:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom and Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG), Tangier, Morocco would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,128 miles (or 1,815 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the relatively short distance between RAF Brize Norton and Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about RAF Brize Norton (BZZ):

• By the 1950s Cold War tension was escalating and the United States envisaged stationing nuclear bombers in the United Kingdom as a deterrent to Soviet aggression.
• By March 2011, 70 buildings had been refurbished on the station.
• The furthest airport from RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,888 miles (19,132 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• Like many UK military bases RAF Brize Norton has been subject to limited protests by peace demonstrators.
• The closest airport to RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is RAF Fairford (FFD), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WSW of BZZ.
• Major infrastructure redevelopment began in 2010 ahead of the closure of RAF Lyneham in 2012, at which point Brize Norton became the sole air point of embarkation for British troops.
• 101 Squadron reformed at Brize Norton on 1 May 1984, it previously operated the Avro Vulcan and participated in the Operation Black Buck missions of the Falklands War.

Facts about Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG):

• Because of Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport's relatively low elevation of 62 feet, planes can take off or land at Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• The closest airport to Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG) is Sania Ramel Airport (SII), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) ESE of TNG.
• A new airport terminal building was opened in 2008 to provide for many more flights and increased passenger capability, as Tangier has grown rapidly development and modernized.
• In addition to being known as "Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport", other names for TNG include "Aéroport Tanger Ibn Battoutaمطار طنجة ابن بطوطة" and "مطار طنجة ابن بطوطة".
• Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG) is Whangarei Airport (WRE), which is nearly antipodal to Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (meaning Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Whangarei Airport), and is located 12,421 miles (19,989 kilometers) away in Whangarei, New Zealand.
• Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport handled 484,391 passengers last year.